Dear R-helpers, I would like to have my students read into R an online Stata dataset: 'http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta'
I was able to read it into R after downloading it and converting it with StatTransfer (http://www.stattransfer.com/). Here is what happens when I use read.dta() as I would use read.table(): > require(foreign) > risk2 <- > read.dta('http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta') > Error in > read.dta("http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta > ") : > unable to open file Then I try: > riskTmp <- > read.table('http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta') > Warning message: > In read.table("http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta > ") : > incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on > 'http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta' > head(riskTmp) > V1 > 1 l\001\001\300 > 2 .%9.0g > 3 \342CNTL%8.0g > > risk2 <- read.dta(riskTmp) > Error in read.dta(riskTmp) : first argument must be a file name So I tried to save riskTmp as a file, and read it in using read.dta(): > save(riskTmp, file = 'risk.dta') > risk2 <- read.dta('risk.dta') > Error in read.dta("risk.dta") : not a Stata version 5-8 .dta file But that presumably garbled the file. (Indeed, StatTransfer told me so.) Would it be appropriate to request this as a feature of foreign::read.dta()? (Thomas Lumley is the author.) _____________________________ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology USPS: P.O.Box 400400 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 Parcels: Room 102 Gilmer Hall McCormick Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 Office: B011 +1-434-982-4729 Lab: B019 +1-434-982-4751 Fax: +1-434-982-4766 WWW: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
